Abstract:
:Huntington's disease (HD) has been recently shown to have a horizontally transmitted, prion-like pathology. Thus, the migration of polyglutamine-containing aggregates to acceptor cells is important for the progression of HD. These aggregates contain glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH), which increases their intracellular transport and their toxicity. Here, we show that RX624, a derivative of hydrocortisone that binds to GAPDH, prevents the formation of aggregates of GAPDH-polyglutamine excreted into the culture medium by PC-12 rat cells expressing mutant huntingtin. RX624 was previously shown to be unable to penetrate cells and, thus, its principal therapeutic action might be the inhibition of polyglutamine-GAPDH complex aggregation in the extracellular matrix. The administration of RX624 to SH-SY5Y acceptor cells that incubated in conditioned medium from PC-12 cells expressing mutant huntingtin caused an approximately 20% increase in survival. This suggests that RX624 might be useful as a drug against polyglutamine pathologies, and that is could be administered exogenously without affecting target cell physiology. This protective effect was validated by the similar effect of an anti-GAPDH specific antibody.
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Biochem Biophys Res Communjournal_title
Biochemical and biophysical research communicationsauthors
Lazarev VF,Mikhaylova ER,Dutysheva EA,Suezov RV,Guzhova IV,Margulis BAdoi
10.1016/j.bbrc.2017.04.125subject
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2017-06-03 00:00:00pages
723-727issue
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0006-291Xissn
1090-2104pii
S0006-291X(17)30807-0journal_volume
487pub_type
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